tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008-08-07://53 2009-09-14T20:51:19Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.36039 2009-09-14T20:51:19Z 2009-09-14T20:51:19Z

Although the W3C's XML Pipeline Language (XProc) hasn't even left the stable yet, people are already looking beyond its original purpose. XProc was designed to solve the problem of how to describe the joining together of multiple XML processing steps. So, the question is, how do you extend XProc to handle new features like explicit concurrency...

Philip Fennell Although the W3C's XML Pipeline Language (XProc) hasn't even left the stable yet, people are already looking beyond its original purpose. XProc was designed to solve the problem of how to describe the joining together of multiple XML processing steps. So, the question is, how do you extend XProc to handle new features like explicit concurrency... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35734 2009-03-31T12:11:11Z 2009-03-31T12:11:11Z

I saw something the other day that I was both intrigued and bothered by in equal measure. 'Mozilla and the Khronos Group Announce Initiative to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web'. Apparently, the working group will look at exposing OpenGL capabilities within ECMAScript. The intriguing part is that, as a fan of 3D Computer Graphics and Animation this has got to be a good sign, especially if it is exposed in this way; but the bothersome bit is how people will end up using it because it has been exposed in this way. The crux of the problem for me is the question, JavaScript - what's it good for? Absolutely...

Philip Fennell I saw something the other day that I was both intrigued and bothered by in equal measure. 'Mozilla and the Khronos Group Announce Initiative to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web'. Apparently, the working group will look at exposing OpenGL capabilities within ECMAScript. The intriguing part is that, as a fan of 3D Computer Graphics and Animation this has got to be a good sign, especially if it is exposed in this way; but the bothersome bit is how people will end up using it because it has been exposed in this way. The crux of the problem for me is the question, JavaScript - what's it good for? Absolutely... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35452 2009-03-09T11:27:12Z 2009-03-09T11:27:12Z

About three years ago I was really getting into Functional Programming (FP). Up until then I had been doing a lot of work with XSLT, which has many FP characteristics; Single Assignment, Lazy Evaluation, and the like, but I wanted to explore further what FP had to offer. Then, more by luck than judgement, I ran into Erlang, and we just clicked. To me, it seemed an elegant and expressive language, and a Functional one at that.

Philip Fennell About three years ago I was really getting into Functional Programming (FP). Up until then I had been doing a lot of work with XSLT, which has many FP characteristics; Single Assignment, Lazy Evaluation, and the like, but I wanted to explore further what FP had to offer. Then, more by luck than judgement, I ran into Erlang, and we just clicked. To me, it seemed an elegant and expressive language, and a Functional one at that. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.34692 2009-01-08T15:00:00Z 2009-01-08T15:00:00Z

...the whole world smiles with you. No it's not a typo, the acronym for the W3C's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is pronounced "smile", and the SMIL Animation module sure makes me smile; even more so given the fact that I've seen it mentioned, outside of the usual multi-media circles, three times last year and once already this year...

Philip Fennell ...the whole world smiles with you. No it's not a typo, the acronym for the W3C's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is pronounced "smile", and the SMIL Animation module sure makes me smile; even more so given the fact that I've seen it mentioned, outside of the usual multi-media circles, three times last year and once already this year... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34667 2008-12-17T22:07:30Z 2008-12-17T22:07:30Z

The other day I had what could only be described as a 'Roy Scheider moment', you know the bit in the film Jaws where the camera tracks-in whilst zooming-out at the same time. Well, whilst debugging an XForms enabled application, the Mozilla XForms plug-in had exposed the host document, XForms and all, as the content of the empty xf:instance. How odd. I mean, what good is that? That's when it struck me in a Roy Scheider sort of way; this was Reflection, the ability of a program to look at itself and change its behaviour.

Philip Fennell The other day I had what could only be described as a 'Roy Scheider moment', you know the bit in the film Jaws where the camera tracks-in whilst zooming-out at the same time. Well, whilst debugging an XForms enabled application, the Mozilla XForms plug-in had exposed the host document, XForms and all, as the content of the empty xf:instance. How odd. I mean, what good is that? That's when it struck me in a Roy Scheider sort of way; this was Reflection, the ability of a program to look at itself and change its behaviour. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34202 2008-12-01T08:27:29Z 2008-12-01T08:27:29Z

A high-fidelity prototype provides the engineers and QA organization with a rich, interactive description of the product's intended functionality and design to be used as a reference basis for implementation and test. Whenever this subject is raised my thoughts turn immediately to XForms. The advantage of prototyping with XForms is that it is quick, declarative, readable and is well defined.

Philip Fennell A high-fidelity prototype provides the engineers and QA organization with a rich, interactive description of the product's intended functionality and design to be used as a reference basis for implementation and test. Whenever this subject is raised my thoughts turn immediately to XForms. The advantage of prototyping with XForms is that it is quick, declarative, readable and is well defined. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.33638 2008-10-02T19:52:00Z 2008-10-02T19:52:00Z

Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project's mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold...

Philip Fennell Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project's mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold...